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That’s the world I remember…. 7 or so hours of music tv and whatever anime I could find

Very often the same anime over and over and over again because it was all you owned on VHS.

There's a reason why the kid with the Nintendo was the popular one in the friend group.

There were other CRT-related options though.

A weekend for Gen X children? How did we relish our delightful freedom? Sitting on the coach alone watching TV. For the entire day. Drastically flipping channels trying to find something we want to watch on limited channels. Sighing into watching something we dont want to because it is on.

I dont think I ever once in my life got a bunch of kids together to go play a sport in a local field. I did watch kids do that in the movies, though. I also watched kids in movies ride on flying bicycles.

It cracks me up, guys younger than me talking about how their childhoods were like The Sandlot. Not if you grew up in Queens NY in the 70's & 80's. We hung out at the park, sure, we played stickball and football in the street but this Little Rascals-esque utopia they remember was not a thing

City? I grew up rural, we were fairly free range. Backyard football, bike down to the old quarry, catch crawdads in the creek, the whole bit.

I grew up rural too. Why the fuck would I want to go into the boring outside when there was TV?

Wasn't anything good on TV during the day though, just soap operas. We probably ran around less during the school year, but summer break you had to kill time until the afternoon cartoons. Then you were good until the news came on. Unless you had cable, I suppose.

I will say I, a proper nerd, spent way more time outside than my mostly non-nerd children do. But it wasn't the internet. They became homebodies during Corona. Before that they were outside at least as much as I was.

But they probably spend more time watching shitty content online than I did watching shitty TV. I spent a lot more time with my head in books than they do (still do). That part might be more of a thing that can be blamed on the internet.

Yeah, but not everyone was big readers like we were. My brothers definitely spent the time on TV and not books. Average household was 7 1/2 hours a day of TV